A wedding is the extreme case of quote versus final bill: almost every item is priced per head, and the guest count multiplies everything. Our guides work per guest rather than per event.
A wedding does not have a price, it has a multiplier. Almost every major item is quoted per head, and the guest list decides the budget far more than the quality of the suppliers does.
Verified on Jul 2026 · 2 sources
This is not a wedding tax: it is stamp duty on the publication record. The number of stamps depends on the municipalities involved, not on the religious or civil form of the ceremony.
Verified on Oct 2026 · 3 sources
Because a wedding's cost is almost entirely proportional to the guest count, and the couple decides that count. Catering, the largest item, is quoted per head; table flowers and favours scale with the number of tables. A national average lumps together weddings of fifty and of two hundred guests and returns a number that matches neither. The figure to use is the cost per guest — EUR 238 in the 2026 edition of the industry report — multiplied by your own list.
Getting married in ItalyEUR 16 is the price of one duty stamp and applies in the basic case, where both partners live in the municipality receiving the request. If they live in different municipalities, the Como and Venice offices state that two stamps are needed, totalling EUR 32. The cost can rise again when a civil ceremony delegation to another municipality is required.
Marriage publications in Italy